Beef Quotes - Page 5

• First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

  Gail Simmons

  Thinking, People, Taste

  "‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Reveals Her Favorite Ketchup". Interview with Michelle Madden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

  Colin Farrell

  Lying, Interesting, Might

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• The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?

  William Goldman

  Boys, Want, Noodles

  "The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure".

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• I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.

  Waka Flocka Flame

  Dog, Needs, Chickens

  "Waka Flocka Flame is a Product". Interview with David Shapiro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Vacation, Air

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• The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Real, Annoyed, Understanding

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• He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Disappointment, Lunch, Afternoon

  Mary Gaitskill (1988). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, Poseidon Press

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• My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Ideas, Issues, People

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• Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fun, School, Cutting

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• Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or thinking it's totally acceptable to make a T-shirt from a collapsing factory. Increasingly, people don't want to work for these companies, and consumers don't want to buy from them.

  Paul Polman

  Horse, Thinking, People

  "Unilever chief Paul Polman wants to orient company for the long term". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.smh.com.au. May 25, 2015.

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• In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.

  John Robbins

  California, Water, May

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.237, Conari Press

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• Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

  Heloise

  Eye, Cutting, Cooking

  Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”

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• Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  People, Alive, Fowl

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark P, pp. 188-189, 1732.

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• I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.

  Hope Solo

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• I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

  Taylor Momsen

  Fighting, Two, Males

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides?

  Michael Moss

  Thinking, Oil, Sunflower

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.

  Deborah Copaken

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

  Julia Child

  Taken, Crowns, World

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• Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Challenges, Environmental, Meat

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Years, Two

  "The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You from Here to There". Book by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179, 2006.

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• You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

  Eminem

  Revenge, Ass, Retribution

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef -- staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

  William Allen White

  Food, Animal, Cooking

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• The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  World, Vegetarian, Environment

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• How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

  Edward Abbey

  Beer, Cabins, Tees

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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